Growing up in Chicagoland we had on the VHF Band
ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, WGN the big local with Bozo's Circus.
UHF had
Spanish Channel 26, WFLD Channel 32 reruns and old movies, Channel 44 reruns, cartoons and old movies until it was taken over and turned into a wavy pay-movie channel.
Channel 60 and 66. Interchangeable. One started out as a music-video channel.
And Channel 50, run out of a local high school in St. John, Indiana.
Maybe one other Spanish channel.